Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-05
SAM JONES SAVINGS.
Sharp and Epigrammatic Sentences from His
Latest Sermons

Latest Sermons.
Baltimore American
Sam Jones preached three sermons yes
terday. The sermons were, as usual,
striking, the speaker also bringing his
argumr Mt home by apt Illustrations ana
entertaining anecdotes. Some of his
plthy sayings are here given.
You can't make friends with God until
you're sorry enough of your sias 20 Quit
them.
If a man repents he don't have to try
to believe; it comes of itself.
God can't give you faith; you've got TO
d" that Yourself. God gives you sight,
but seeing Is your job. God gives you
taste, bus do !ou ever ask God to taste
ham and eggss
You may call this silly talk, but I'm
talking 30 silly crowd.
ROBUSTNESS Is what you rub on foolish
psopIe.
A Ran once said to me, "NIr. Jones.
when you have converted the hypocrltes
come and talk religion to me- These
hypocrltes are in my way" I said.
tue! Wou' dn't be Ill your way if they
hadn't got ahead OF You. Amt Won
ashamed to let ny pocrites get ahead OF
your"
I've got more co fience in bread pills
administered oy praying doctor than
the finest science given By an agnostic.
understand why old Bob Iugerscu Is
an intidei; it pays HIM $500 a night to
deny God, while be would not get $40 a
night lecturlng that there is God.
l wouldn't give 10 cents dozen for
Christians who wouldn't pray in pubic.
There are thousand differences be-
7 tween Us. bQE pIrly Sl1EA
When an engineer gets down from his
cab to oil his machinery l notice that he
pours OIL out of the same can upon all the
! parts, great and small alise. And SO the
Great Engineer of the universe pours the
oil of grace from the great heavenly store
house upon the great and small alike. and
makes 1t as easy for one person as another
to do right. Ii there is any one here who
Is not what God intended on 70 be it's
/ because you won't give HIM a chance.
am getting sick and tired of this cant,
/ its so hard for me to do right" You're
! good for nothing, that's what's the matter
with you.
know it's heap easier to be a gentle
man than vagahond. I've tried both.
"Iou whitened sepulcher," as used by
/ Christ, means in nineteeth century par
lance You whitewashed rascal"
There Is difference between MAN
! washed white and whitewashed man
/ Christ's blood washed white. But when a
man is whitewashed it scales Off and leaves
spots, and in damp weather it gets brown
Some people have got three coats OF
whltewash on and yet 1t keeps scaling off
There is a difference between rest and
resting. A resting is sitting down; d
| rested man Is up and doing something
The first thing Christ gives to a man Is
rest, and then he wants to be dong.
Blessed be they who give, and blessed
be those who do not give, for If they are
blessed they will give.
The last step, the last thought on earth
means good-by to the last opportunity.
God speed the day when the church will
kick cut every man within its borders who
deals In futures. The church and the
preacher who depends upon such sort OF
people belongs TO the devil from hat tC
heels.
Brother, II you are not afraid of God
you will have good reason to fear every
corner OF the fence.
God does not care for present events
he looks out for final results.
III make my bones ache dancing the
gigeon wing if it wilt help me to heaven
The curse of all the churches in thi.
country is that they have got thousand,
of members who have never been coLvic eC
of sin, much less converted to God.
Whenever anything is wrong quit il
and quit 1t short off. A good many wan
to taper off in sin. They taper off gen
orally to the big end.
The sooner you die the sooner you'll
get to heaven ii you've been good man
No man is going 10 growl on getting int,
heaven ahead of time.
Don't consider Yourself safe till YOU
get there.
Heaven is just on the other side OF
where fellow has done his level best
The man who thinks he's safe, and lie
back ON his oars loses heaven right there
If ever fall I'll get up and run RICH
on; and if l can't I'll do some tall crawl
ing.
You take Baptist water, Methodist fire
Presbyterian "hoid on to what you've
got" and you've got sight.